GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY OF THE SCHOHARIE VALLEY 271 



road turning to the south. It is an important outcrop, for some 

 of the thin layers of the bluish shales contain abundant 

 specimens of a few species of fossils. S p i r i f e r mesa- 

 s t r i a 1 i s Hall is a common species and this zone is in the 

 Ithaca formation which covers the high part of the plateau to the 

 south of Panther creek and west of the Schoharie river in the 

 southern part of Fulton township. In coarser shales above the 

 bluish ones the fossils are not; so common. The following species 

 were collected in a few minutes and a thorough search would 

 undoubtedly materially increase the number. 



1 Spirifer mucronatus (Con.) Bill, a 



2 S. mesastrialis Hall c 



3 Ortbonota undulata Con. c 



4 Sphenotus truncatus (Con.) Hall a 



5 Schizoclus appressus (Con.) Hall rr 



6 S. cf. ellipticus Hall r 



7 Grammysia ( Spbenomya ) cuneata Hall (?) r 



Specimens broken and imperfectly preserved. 



8 Palaeonello cf. plana Hall rr 



9 Liopteria bigsbyi Hall r 



10 Atbyris spiriferoides (Eaton) Hall rr 



11 Orbiculoidea cf. media (Hall) H. & C. r 



The pedicle passage seems to be wider than in the figures 'of this species and 

 scarcely connected at margin. 



About 45 feet higher, lacking but 10 feet of the summit on the 

 highway or approximately 1335 feet above the level of the Scho- 

 harie river, is a coarse grained somewhat greenish gray sandstone 

 (X 7 ). On the next ridge to the west, at the same level as 

 X 7 , is another outcrop of the coarse grained, massive sandstone 

 on which glacial striae are well preserved, their direction being 

 from the n. e. toward the s. w. 



16 Section up Panther creek from West Fulton to its head in the 

 western part of Fulton township and then to the summit of 

 the divide in the eastern part of Summit township 



Prosser, Section C 



Rather more than one half mile west of the village is a small 

 quarry on the northern side of the highway which has furnished 

 a part of the foundation stone used in West Fulton and there 

 are also layers of blue (lagging stone of fair quality. Sonic of 

 the rather irregular sandstones contain numerous specimens of 

 Spirifer granulosus (Con.) H. & C. associated with other 

 Eamilton species. The quarry's elevation above Panther creek 

 at West Fulton was not determined, but it is clearly several hun- 

 dred feet below the (<>p of the Hamilton formation in (lie lower 

 part of the zone called C 1 of this section. 



